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Valentine's Day? Reveal your songs about secret admirers

February 14, 2019 Peter Kimpton
He nose, but does she? Cyrano de Bergerac

He nose, but does she? Cyrano de Bergerac

Clandestine cravings and crushes? To spice up a romantic tradition, this week’s topic is all about secret love longings expressed through song, here inspired by real-life examples of musicians, alongside film, books and theatre

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Playlists: songs about Paris

February 13, 2019 Peter Kimpton
King of swing: Django Rehinhardt

King of swing: Django Rehinhardt

Jacques Dutronc to Jacqueline Taieb to Joni Mitchell, all the sights and sound of the great French city are captured in deux listes belles by our guru du semaine fantastique, swawilg. Take a stroll, stop at a café and enjoy …

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We'll always have ... songs about Paris

February 7, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Café culture

Café culture

Romance and glamour, café culture, perfume, protest, or grit and gangs? Paris means all things to all people, but if one thing unites these things, it is inspiration. This week the Bar Du Chanson, we try to capture its essence in song

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Sound investments? Songs about banks and banking

January 31, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Put your deposits here …

Put your deposits here …

Ruled by them or robbing them, debts and deposits to crises and economic crashes, this week it’s time to turn our musical attention to banks and bankers, and realise that aside from facts and figures, they are also all about people

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Playlists: songs pertaining to music venues and spaces

January 30, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Barrrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Barrrowland Ballroom, Glasgow

Glasgow to Chicago, London and Liverpool to Lisdoonvarna and all the way to Mali, inspired by many reader nominations around the globe, this week’s playlister pejepeine takes us on a tantalising tour of magical musical locations

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Hello Wembley! Songs pertaining to live music venues and spaces

January 24, 2019 Peter Kimpton
It’s just a stage I’m going through: Bregenz Music Festival in Austria

It’s just a stage I’m going through: Bregenz Music Festival in Austria

Bars, basements, intimate, sweaty or large or legendary, forests, festivals, stratospheric stadia, snug pubs to prisons, caves to operatic amphitheatres, let's musically celebrate venues and spaces mentioned by, or associated with songs

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Where did it all go wrong? Songs about crisis …

January 17, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Don’t do it, Father Dougal  …

Don’t do it, Father Dougal …

… and how can it all go right? This week let’s see if we can make musical manoeuvres in the current climate, causes and cures for crises, whether they be political social, economic or personal

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Have love will travel: songs about long-distance relationships

January 10, 2019 Peter Kimpton
David Bowie and ‘family’ on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth

David Bowie and ‘family’ on the set of The Man Who Fell To Earth

Transcending distance and time, and sometimes in another dimension, space itself, this week we look to go the full distance to explore the trials and triumphs of enduring love, or otherwise, made or broken by absence

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Playlists: songs about fixing, repairing and solving

January 9, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Heartstrings are harder to repair that guitars …

Heartstrings are harder to repair that guitars …

From gaffer and duct tape, housing to mending a broken heart, let’s repair towards fantastic playlists created by the handy skills of our guest treefrogdemon, who was inspired by a full toolkit of suggestions from last week’s topic

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Tune up for 2019: songs about fixing, repairing and solving

January 3, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Global repair

Global repair

From cars to people, mind and body, clocks or guitars, the world at large or little local difficulties, let’s start 2019 by fixing up and looking sharp with skills and toolkits on this topic

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Playlists: songs that sound like other songs

January 2, 2019 Peter Kimpton
Stop me if you’ve heard that one before …

Stop me if you’ve heard that one before …

Is there an echo in here? Those with sharp ears will enjoy some remarkable and fun comparisons as this week’s playlister Olive Butler perfectly picks out some of the soundalikes from a double topic over the festive period

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Familiar? It's a Christmas special: songs that sound like other songs

December 20, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Superb lyrebird - sounds like everything else, but nothing sounds like it.

Superb lyrebird - sounds like everything else, but nothing sounds like it.

The topic over the Christmas holiday season is a form of convivial, parlour game in which pairs of songs can be nominated that share musical or other echoes - but which came first and where are the comparisons? You decide …

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All you need is: songs about platonic love

December 13, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Not so strange bedfellows: Eric and Ernie

Not so strange bedfellows: Eric and Ernie

The non-sexual, non-romantic sort is what makes up most of the love we experience in life, so whether that concerns real or fictional experiences, let’s define and explore it as expressed in song lyrics

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How great thou art: songs influenced by gospel

December 6, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Guitar and singing legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Guitar and singing legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big flamboyant, expressive voices to call-and-response choirs, praise and looking for answers? This week we soul search into gospel’s musical styles infused into other genres, from soul to R&B, hip hop to rock, folk and indie

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A magic number: songs and music by trios

November 22, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Three-dog night

Three-dog night

Triangles and holy trinities, this week let’s explore the musical dynamic within groups in which three artists perform as a self-contained unit, not merely pop, jazz, classical, or folk, but across all all genres

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Playlists: songs about shooting

November 21, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Hot shot Lou Reed

Hot shot Lou Reed

Lou Reed to Tom Waits, Susanne Sundfør to Sandy Denny, inspired by a salvo of superb nominations, this week’s chief arms officer Suzi shoots out in all contexts to hit the target with two sharp-shooting playlists

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Bang! Trigger your ideas for: songs about shooting

November 15, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Wild West guitar wiz Wilko Johnson

Wild West guitar wiz Wilko Johnson

Bang bang! This week it’s time to find your range, come out with all guns blazing with songs about bullets, guns, cannons, bows and arrows. Gun culture arguments and more, let’s shoot from the hip

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Pack up your troubles: songs about determination

November 8, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Towards armistice: some of the First World War determined

Towards armistice: some of the First World War determined

On the eve of the First World War Armistice centenary, this week we look at songs about striving through extremely difficult circumstances, whether in conflict or peacetime, extreme or daily situations

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Playlists: songs that express the movement and feeling of walking

November 7, 2018 Peter Kimpton
Stray Cat Strut …

Stray Cat Strut …

Strolling, sauntering, strutting, ambling, rambling, hiking and meandering, from a week of walking nominations, these lists by guest ambulatory expert Abahachi will take you through many wonderful countries, genres and gaits

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Strident in song: music that expresses the movement and feeling of walking

November 1, 2018 Peter Kimpton
No two walks are the same …

No two walks are the same …

We all walk slightly differently, so this week it’s all about music that expresses various strolls, swings, swaggers, ambles or strides, and whether in politics or personal, marching bands or military, let’s capture the movement of the people

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MORE MUSIC …

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Feb 18, 2019
New albums: Chaka Khan, Ladytron, Piroshka, Methyl Ethel, Cass McCombs, Stats, Czarface and Ghostface Killah, Bis, Homeshake
Feb 18, 2019

Alongside full funk and pop from Prince’s great friend Chaka, experimental, indie and electronica dominate this week’s roundup, including Australia’s Methyl Ethel and long due return from Glasgow’s catchy popsters Bis

Feb 18, 2019
Feb 11, 2019
New albums: International Teachers of Pop, Yak, LCD Soundsystem, Elder Island, Mercury Rev (& various), Flat Worms, Jessica Pratt, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Panda Bear, Lemonheads
Feb 11, 2019

Electronic pop from the International Teacher and Elder Island, Yak’s long -awaited indie, covers by Mercury Rev and Lemonheads, slow beauty by Jessica Pratt and lo-fi live studio recordings by LCD Soundsystem are among this week’s bumper roundup

Feb 11, 2019
Feb 4, 2019
New albums: Beirut, The Specials, Ian Brown, Rustin Man, Tiny Ruins, Unloved, The Cool Greenhouse, Angel Bat Dawid, Cherry Glazerr
Feb 4, 2019

Brass beauty from Beirut, a 40th anniversary album from The Specials. and a new solo album from the Stone Roses frontman are among this week’s roundup of releases that are various experimental, rock, electronica and more

Feb 4, 2019
Jan 29, 2019
New albums: Toy, Swervedriver, Better Oblivion Community Center (Conor Oberst & Phoebe Bridgers), DAWN, Rat Boy, Sunflower Bean, Mike Krol
Jan 29, 2019

From an experimental album by New Orleans artist DAWN to a collaboration between Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, as well as a return by 90s shoegazers Swervedriver, this week’s roundup has plenty of surprises

Jan 29, 2019

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Feb 20, 2019
Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters – A Quiet Place
Feb 20, 2019

Song of the Day: Following Miles Davis with In A Silent Way, a beautiful ‘64 soul number pleading for silence on a noisy street by the artist who grew up in Philadelphia and developed his Sam Cooke-like voice in church and doo-wop bands

Feb 20, 2019
Feb 19, 2019
Miles Davis – In A Silent Way
Feb 19, 2019

Album of the Day: A special edition to mark the anniversary of a unique masterpiece recorded 50 years ago today on 18 February 1969 at New York’s CBS 30th Street Studio. Davis’s contribution was small, but key, fitting perfectly alongside the work of other greats

Feb 19, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
The Staple Singers – Bridges Instead of Walls
Feb 15, 2019

Song of the Day: On the day Donald Trump calls an attention-seeking national emergency to get funding for his controversial wall project, a song from 1973 by the great soul and gospel family with a message that’s loud and clear

Feb 15, 2019
Feb 12, 2019
The Beatles – Birthday
Feb 12, 2019

Song of the Day: Combining two birthdays, one for the Song Bar itself - now three years old, and less significantly, the Bar’s Landlord, this off-the-cuff rock number was written during the White Album recordings on 18 September 1968

Feb 12, 2019
Feb 3, 2019
The Groundhogs – Cherry Red / Eccentric Man (plus John Lee Hooker)
Feb 3, 2019

Song of the Day: Deliberately one day after the traditional date of Groundhog Day, life and music repeats itself with two songs by the British 60s band were inspired the great American bluesman and one of his numbers

Feb 3, 2019
Jan 22, 2019
Sandie Shaw / Ron Moody / Galliano – Reviewing The Situation
Jan 22, 2019

Song of the Day: To capture the current state of farcical flux and political impasse over Brexit and US government shutdown, a classic written by Lionel Bart for the musical Oliver!, which also became a feminist 60s pop hit for the female star

Jan 22, 2019
Jan 15, 2019
Alabama 3 – Woke Up This Morning
Jan 15, 2019

Song of the Day: After Miss Otis Regrets, another songs about a women who decided to stop taking abuse from a man, this time by the band from Brixton whose song eventually became synonymous with the Sopranos

Jan 15, 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Ella Fitzgerald / Ethel Waters – Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable To Lunch Today)
Jan 14, 2019

Song of the Day: After yesterday’s She Drew The Gun songs, let’s go back to an original Cole Porter number from 1934, which contains that shot line of defiance and revenge, a tragic tale about a society woman who simply would not take it anymore

Jan 14, 2019

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Feb 17, 2019
Word of the week: flimflam
Feb 17, 2019

Word of the week: It means pseudo-intellectual nonsense, insincerity or a confidence trick perpetrated by elected officials, so while antiquated, always current and relevant, and with a lovely musicality where has it been used in lyrics?

Feb 17, 2019
Feb 9, 2019
Word of the week: gabardine
Feb 9, 2019

Word of the week: Let’s extend the lyrical wardrobe. It’s a smooth, durable, twill-woven worsted, rayon or cotton cloth material and also the name of coat, but is a also beautifully sounding, musical word, perfectly suited to sung words

Feb 9, 2019
Feb 2, 2019
Word of the week: harridan
Feb 2, 2019

Word of the week: It traditionally means a scolding, bossy, unpleasant woman, possibly with origins from the 17th century and related to the verb to harry, or hassle, and has a certain comical quality, but where does it come up in song lyrics?

Feb 2, 2019
Jan 23, 2019
Word of the week: ichthyosaur
Jan 23, 2019

Word of the week: After last week’s fictional Jabberwocky, a real-life deep-sea dinosaur, a fish-reptile with an extraordinary evolutionary history on land and sea, famous in fossils, but where can we dive to find it in song lyrics?

Jan 23, 2019
Jan 16, 2019
Word of the week: jabberwock
Jan 16, 2019

Word of the week: It’s best known as the mythical monster in Lewis Carroll’s poem from Through The Looking Glass (1871), but the word also means nonsense or gibberish, something that continues to be very much at large

Jan 16, 2019

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